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IRAN. MAN CONVICTED OF RAPE HANGED IN PUBLIC

A public hanging in Iran

08 July 2005 :

an Iranian man convicted of rape was hanged in public in Salmas, northwestern Azarbaijan province, Iran, the Shargh daily reported. The man, identified only as Hajan, from Mafanjooq village, was hanged early morning in one of the town's squares.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 07/07/2005)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.